calque in English
verb
1
originate or function as a loan translation of.
Besides, even when the new meanings of existing words were calqued on cognate words in other languages.
noun
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1. La construction inverse, Assigner quelqu’un à quelque chose, est un calque de l’anglais to assign, que l’on doit
2. Adjective comes from Latin nōmen adjectīvum, a calque of Ancient Greek: ἐπίθετον ὄνομα, romanized: epítheton ónoma, lit
3. 語源Aspen + glow, modeled on alpenglow.名詞aspenglow (複数形 Aspenglows)(US, Colorado) The glow on mountai alpenglow - Wiktionary英語版 WOTD – 12 January 2006語源A partial calque of German Alpenglühen, with the second element replaced